APG5451 Cultural economy in practice
Faculty of Arts
APG5451 Cultural economy in practice is a level 5, 6-credit-point, postgraduate unit from the Faculty of Arts. It isn't offered in 2025. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2025
- Not offered
- Assessment
- No exam
- 2 tasks
- Workload
- 144 hours
- per semester
This is the 2025 handbook entry. See the 2026 entry.
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Requisites
Before APG5451
Prohibitions
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After APG5451
No unit lists APG5451 as a prerequisite in the 2025 handbook.
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Overview
Taking a cultural economy approach, this research-led unit seeks to equip students with conceptual and methodological tools for the analysis and understanding of the variety of functions of culture in contemporary society. The approach encompasses theory and methods drawn from political economy, sociological and cultural studies. It equips students with skills to identify, generate and contribute to debates about the practices surrounding culture, the conceptual, political and practical purposes it serves and the values it generates for a variety of interests and contexts. The unit is formulated to be responsive to live debates and directions of current work and issues in the field, exploring current scholarly agendas to nurture an inter-disciplinary research community through a workshop-based pedagogy.
Offerings in 2025
The 2025 handbook lists no offerings for APG5451.
Assessment
- Research projectWritten50%
- ReflectionWritten50%
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Identify and operationalise a research agenda for current issues and challenges in the cultural economy;
- 2
Identify and deploy effectively a repertoire of methods for researching the cultural economy;
- 3
Engage critically in scholarly debates about the nature and direction of the cultural economy at local, national and global level;
- 4
Communicate effectively a breadth and depth of analysis applied to cultural economy issues, debates and research for a range of audiences.
Workload and teaching
- Tutorials18 hours
- Lectures12 hours
- Teaching approachActive learning
Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.
Contacts
- Unit Coordinators
- Professor Paul Long
- Chief Examiners
- Professor Paul Long
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for APG5451?
APG5451 has no prerequisites.
When is APG5451 offered?
APG5451 has no offerings listed in the 2025 handbook.
How much work is APG5451?
The handbook expects about 144 hours of study across the semester. No students have rated its difficulty yet.
Does APG5451 have an exam?
No. APG5451 has 2 assessment tasks and no exam.